Frankenstein: Creating a Human

Timmy Harder Mr. Reynolds English February 20, 2010 Frankenstein vs. modern font Science When Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, was written, it was seen as a novel archetype scientists and people of the time of the dangers that could acquire from exploring unfamiliar scientific playing fields. In Frankenstein, the unknown field of study is the creation of a live pitying being. At the time, this was seen as an unthinkable and impossible task, plainly achiever completes it, although poorly. He began the investigateation with little preparation and most of the procedures were done without care.His experiment was way before its time and most people were confused or scared by his creation. Even today creation of a human being is unhearable of. However, today, one of the major issues that is being discussed is that of stem cell look into. The scientists of origin cubicle Research and Victor Frankenstein share some aspects that could greatly inhibit their boilersuit findings. Vi ctor had many problems that could scare off modern scientific research but the two major fears are the side-effects that the creation may baffle and scientist unpreparedness of their actions.The beginning(a) problem with exploring a new scientific field is that non much is known close it including the procedure and just the knowledge of the subject. Victor began his initial research when he returned from England after visiting fellow scientists. He wanted to make his name famous, but he totally treat the necessities of the experiment. When he sinless his creation, it was so hideous that he had to leave because he could not handle the ugliness. He planned to make a human like himself instead he created a monster with yellowish whittle and a height of eight feet.Needless to say, this creature was about as faraway away from a human as he could fix gotten it was more than of a giant. When Victor graduation sees the monster he says, The beauty of the moon vanished, and breath less horror and disgust filled my heart. (pg. 38) Victor could not even out force himself to look at the monster because it was too hideous. When Victor first began the experiment, he believed that he had the complete set of tools to perform the experiment but, in the end, he was not prepared enough.Today, Stem Cell research is in the same sort of mold that Victors experiment was in. Stem Cells were discovered in the late 1960s and real live experiments did not begin until the 1980s. At first, the experiments were performed on animals and many resulted in extra limbs and mutated dust parts. The experiments were then tested on a set of twins, who were in critical need of a bone marrow transplant. The initial experiment went perfect, but afterwards their legs did not function properly, and they went in for another surgery.However, stem cells were researched for about 10 years until the first experiment was conducted, while Victor conducted his first experiment just four years afte r he completed medical school. The only problem was that both experiments were conducted with total disregard of what could hap after the experiment, and in the case of the twins improperly functioning legs for life. erst the experiment or surgery was completed there are septuple side-effects that could follow each procedure. Side-effects are the things that may occur after the experiment that could damage the person for whom the experiment was completed, or the population.For example, Victor created the creature, and with the creature followed many problems that unnatural the creature itself, and many people in the city were bothered by the monster. The creature killed many people on accident, and the creature was affected by his ugliness and his lack of communication skills. He was unable to choke with other people and he eventually became lonely. Although many of the creatures side-effects were emotional and could have been avoided by the creature itself, the side-effects in total could have been delayed if Victor never created the monster in the first place.However, many of the side-effects that follow stem cell transplant are only harmful to the person for whom they were transplanted. Several side-effects include no-stop bleeding, Anemia, and Infertility. None of these directly affect the population, although Infertility would prevent children from being born. However, the most devastating side-effect is a mutation of several remains parts. One example was a kid growing an extra vesica because the environment prevented him from growing an extra kidney. Unfortunately, the man perished from bumcer.Mary Shelley did as best as she could to warn the future scientists of the danger of engaging in an unknown field of science. Today, with stem cell research it is a relatively new consequence that scientists are slake researching. Many initial experiments have been performed, and when done correctly, can create scientific medicals. But stem cell resea rch is still young, and with its relative newness, many experiments have gone wrong and have resulted in deaths and terrible side-effects. Citation http//www. quackwatch. org/06ResearchProjects/stemcell. html